I have started a new diet which consists of absolutely no sugar, vegetable oils or saturated fats. Not because I'm trying to lose weight, but I have self diagnosed myself with hormonal acne. I know, so hot. I have been on this "diet" for about 3 days and already there is a huge improvement and I don't feel like a disgusting monstrosity like I have for the past 3 months.
Being that I work in the restaurant industry, I'm exposed and forced to work with so many people and having to serve people all day really doesn't help my insecurities at all. I'm so obsessed with clear skin that sometimes I will be talking to someone and just wonder HOW this fugly biotch has clear skin and I don't. That's who I've become. I should be on MTV True Life: I HATE HORMONALLY BALANCED PEOPLE.
So back to the diet... let me preface this by saying that I was desperate. I was researching acne all day all night and still coming up with nothing. I was so close to going on a 3 day apple diet, which consists of a nightly enema and putting canola oil on your skin. Research it... it almost makes sense. The idea is that apples soak up toxins in your body and the enemas get rid of the toxins. Not sure what the canola oil does, but like I said... DESPERATE.
So on the day I decided to start this sensible diet, I was sitting in bed waiting for the apples to magically appear in my kitchen. Maybe an apple tree would grow on my lanai for me. I was almost having an outer body experience where I could see myself getting ready and going to the store and picking everything up, preparing it and eating it in bed, but like I said... ALMOST. Reality check, I was still sitting in bed starving.
I decided to give up before I started. I like apples, but for 3 days? And you can't even get creative with it and make apple pies or apple butter... and believe me, watching the food network doesn't help. So I decided to research more, even though I feel like I'm feeding my addiction to obsess. So then I came upon this one online book that promised clear skin, good nutrition and vast riches! Okay, so maybe not the last part, but 2 out of 3 isn't bad.
So I bought this online book for $40 (Don't Judge Me) and it basically says don't eat sugar, oils or fats. It also lists the supplements that I need to take and a few other preventative actions to take. So I've been following these guidelines and I've seen some miraculous results, but they don't come without a price. I've come to the realization that sugars, oils and fats are the 3 components that make food scrumptious. Add sugar and deep fry it. That's the recipe to greatness. (Damn, I sound like NR) I can't even have fruits because they have natural sugars in them and so basically I eat alot of vegetables and drink alot of water. And when I get too hungry to convince myself it's worth it, I draw pictures of McDonalds and eat the paper. (Once again, don't judge me)
I must say the only relief I've had with this whole ordeal is being able to come home to someone who loves me no matter how I look. And no matter how neurotic I was about everything and how ridiculous he thought I was for spending my money on crazy things, he never made me feel worse about the whole situation... only better. It must be love!
Once I feel I'm completely hormonally balanced, I'll cheat here and there, but in the long run, it's good to improve my overall diet. And whenever I'm feeling really dangerous, I'll even treat myself to some soda pop!
So I have this to ask you.... which would you choose? BEING FAT AND OBESE WITH AMAZING SKIN? OR HOT AND FRESH WITH UNCOVERABLE ACNE? Consider this... being fat is more common than distracting acne and plus-size modeling is rapidly becoming more and more acceptable in the modeling industry, which will eventually overflow into common fat folks becoming more and more accepted in everyday life. And even though obesity kills and acne never killed anyone, you will never see acne on the catwalk. Something to think about...
Monday, April 21, 2008
Saturday, April 12, 2008
Chang-A-Lang!
So work has been going pretty well. All of the people I work with are cool and the managers are nice. It's weird because sometimes you'll be working w/ people you like, but if you're not on the same floor, you won't see them at all!
We don't really get scheduled for alot of shifts because there are SO many employees, but I'm guessing that'll change as people get fired or quit. So far the money hasn't been that great which has been a bit surprising to me. I keep thinking about it and everything is in my favor. Good restaurant... check. Great location... check. Good clientele and high prices... check. So why aren't I making money? My sales as of late have been over $500 each night, but I have yet to break a bill yet.
I'm guessing that tipout being 5% total is really hurting me, but that's not something that I can do anything about so I will just try to get higher sales. Not to mention we don't have any sidework here so that in itself is a dream come true! Also, the clientele here is great, but with all the tourists from countries that don't tip... good service doesn't always = good tip. We get ALOT of Japanese tourists and they tend to be the worst tippers because in Japan, you don't tip at all... so I have started utilizing my Japanese (Broken as it may be) and it has actually started to pay off! Japanese tourists have actually become my best tippers!
One more factor in my favor is that we get paid hourly here! The only paycheck I used to get said ''THIS IS NOT A CHECK'' and that was just depressing. The only paycheck I got so far was for training so I'm not sure how my paychecks from now on will go, but hopefully I will be able to pay rent through my paychecks and not have to worry about it! That would be so sweet!
Morning shifts aren't that great because people are always out and about doing touristy activities and even though you'll get a huge section, you probably won't get sat too much. I think that I will try working one soon just to see how they are. And if nothing else, I'll rack up some hours which will help out in the long run.
I definitely have to start saving up for when people come visit and I need to start going places so I'll know the good places to go so I can be a great host, but I'm so broke from not working for so long that I'm still digging myself out of financial destitution so that'll have to wait.
So all in all.... I'll just have to get used to how things are out here, but I definitely love Hawaii and everything it has to offer! Even the traffic here I don't mind as much, but I'm sure that will wear off soon, but by end of July we'll be living in Waikiki, NR-free, and it'll be mad sick yo!
PS - If you leave a comment, let me know who you are! Otherwise I will just automatically assume that you're Sarah Jessica Parker.
We don't really get scheduled for alot of shifts because there are SO many employees, but I'm guessing that'll change as people get fired or quit. So far the money hasn't been that great which has been a bit surprising to me. I keep thinking about it and everything is in my favor. Good restaurant... check. Great location... check. Good clientele and high prices... check. So why aren't I making money? My sales as of late have been over $500 each night, but I have yet to break a bill yet.
I'm guessing that tipout being 5% total is really hurting me, but that's not something that I can do anything about so I will just try to get higher sales. Not to mention we don't have any sidework here so that in itself is a dream come true! Also, the clientele here is great, but with all the tourists from countries that don't tip... good service doesn't always = good tip. We get ALOT of Japanese tourists and they tend to be the worst tippers because in Japan, you don't tip at all... so I have started utilizing my Japanese (Broken as it may be) and it has actually started to pay off! Japanese tourists have actually become my best tippers!
One more factor in my favor is that we get paid hourly here! The only paycheck I used to get said ''THIS IS NOT A CHECK'' and that was just depressing. The only paycheck I got so far was for training so I'm not sure how my paychecks from now on will go, but hopefully I will be able to pay rent through my paychecks and not have to worry about it! That would be so sweet!
Morning shifts aren't that great because people are always out and about doing touristy activities and even though you'll get a huge section, you probably won't get sat too much. I think that I will try working one soon just to see how they are. And if nothing else, I'll rack up some hours which will help out in the long run.
I definitely have to start saving up for when people come visit and I need to start going places so I'll know the good places to go so I can be a great host, but I'm so broke from not working for so long that I'm still digging myself out of financial destitution so that'll have to wait.
So all in all.... I'll just have to get used to how things are out here, but I definitely love Hawaii and everything it has to offer! Even the traffic here I don't mind as much, but I'm sure that will wear off soon, but by end of July we'll be living in Waikiki, NR-free, and it'll be mad sick yo!
PS - If you leave a comment, let me know who you are! Otherwise I will just automatically assume that you're Sarah Jessica Parker.
110 days left!
So it's Friday night and I'm not at work... I should be at work, but due to a managerial mishap I found out that I wasn't working tonight as I was stuck in traffic on the way there... so needless to say I was stuck in traffic all afternoon and one turn became three turns and before I knew it I was lost in China town! It actually wasn't as bad as I thought it was because NR works in China Town and the area he works is full of homeless bums and dark alleys.. but the area I was in was just like you would think China Town would be like! It was kinda cool and maybe I'll actually go get some dim sum there one day.
Mitch is out at dinner right now with his friend from Colorado, Josh, and his girlfriend. I would have gone, but I'll wait till next round after the catching up convos have died down. NR is such a douche. He gets so jealous and territorial when Mitch has any friends other than himself.
Funny story... so NR is such a leech. Everytime Mitch introduces NR to any of his friends NR will get their number and plague them with texts and myspace requests and immediately put them in his top 8. How pathetic. Who does that? So Mitch asked NR why he hadn't made any friends here in Hawaii since we've been here for over 2 months and he screeches "BECAUSE YOU HAVEN'T INTRODUCED ME TO JOSH!" Geesh... whattaleech.
Since my last rant on NR, things have only gone downhill. Mitch will hang out with him and then the next day Mitch won't and NR will go stark mad!!! He is an emotional rollercoaster in severe need of therapy.
After a night of drinks, Mitch and I came home and NR had bought a tv stand, but instead of contributing to the apartment and use it in the living room where the tv is... he puts it in his dumpster of a room. SO... we put the couch that he has been soiling with his beastly self (think Jabba the Hut on a nice, new, clean, leather couch) in our room and boy did he have a fit! Not that he could say anything, but not much goes on in that fat head of his so in his world, things don't have to make sense. So to "get back at us" he put the tv in his room! That is quite possibly the nicest thing he could have done for us! Because he is always watching tv in the living room and polluting the air with his nightly mac and cheese and beer combo that we can't go into the kitchen w/o him glaring at us w/ his glazed over eyes. So now we can peacefully go into the kitchen without NR's constant stench, right? You would think... for someone who doesn't need to be eating... HE'S ALWAYS IN THE KITCHEN! dammit... what did I do to deserve?
And he has the nerve to say that we never clean the kitchen. How about we rarely use the kitchen! I used to clean ALL the time and I would get so annoyed by how he never cleaned up his messes, but now I don't care. I don't clean and I don't give a shit. How hard is it to put dishes in the dishwasher and wipe down the counter? He's in the kitchen deep frying anything he can get his hooves on... it's the least he can do. So over it.
And to make things worse he walks around with his shirt off! He reminds me of those starving children in poverty stricken areas of Africa because his gut is so bloated! How ironic... they're bloated due to poverty... he's bloated due to gluttony. How twisted...
Only 101 days left and the countdown to NR's nonexistence has started!
Mitch is out at dinner right now with his friend from Colorado, Josh, and his girlfriend. I would have gone, but I'll wait till next round after the catching up convos have died down. NR is such a douche. He gets so jealous and territorial when Mitch has any friends other than himself.
Funny story... so NR is such a leech. Everytime Mitch introduces NR to any of his friends NR will get their number and plague them with texts and myspace requests and immediately put them in his top 8. How pathetic. Who does that? So Mitch asked NR why he hadn't made any friends here in Hawaii since we've been here for over 2 months and he screeches "BECAUSE YOU HAVEN'T INTRODUCED ME TO JOSH!" Geesh... whattaleech.
Since my last rant on NR, things have only gone downhill. Mitch will hang out with him and then the next day Mitch won't and NR will go stark mad!!! He is an emotional rollercoaster in severe need of therapy.
After a night of drinks, Mitch and I came home and NR had bought a tv stand, but instead of contributing to the apartment and use it in the living room where the tv is... he puts it in his dumpster of a room. SO... we put the couch that he has been soiling with his beastly self (think Jabba the Hut on a nice, new, clean, leather couch) in our room and boy did he have a fit! Not that he could say anything, but not much goes on in that fat head of his so in his world, things don't have to make sense. So to "get back at us" he put the tv in his room! That is quite possibly the nicest thing he could have done for us! Because he is always watching tv in the living room and polluting the air with his nightly mac and cheese and beer combo that we can't go into the kitchen w/o him glaring at us w/ his glazed over eyes. So now we can peacefully go into the kitchen without NR's constant stench, right? You would think... for someone who doesn't need to be eating... HE'S ALWAYS IN THE KITCHEN! dammit... what did I do to deserve?
And he has the nerve to say that we never clean the kitchen. How about we rarely use the kitchen! I used to clean ALL the time and I would get so annoyed by how he never cleaned up his messes, but now I don't care. I don't clean and I don't give a shit. How hard is it to put dishes in the dishwasher and wipe down the counter? He's in the kitchen deep frying anything he can get his hooves on... it's the least he can do. So over it.
And to make things worse he walks around with his shirt off! He reminds me of those starving children in poverty stricken areas of Africa because his gut is so bloated! How ironic... they're bloated due to poverty... he's bloated due to gluttony. How twisted...
Only 101 days left and the countdown to NR's nonexistence has started!
Tuesday, April 1, 2008
Trannies Can't Count.
I have to start updating this thing more often. That way my posts won't be so long and elaborate. This one will be short and sweet.
I finally started at Changs! After waiting forever, going through 7 days of long and boring training... I'm officially making money! Or trying to...
We are all starting out with 1-3 table sections. Last night was my first night and I got a 2 table section. One 4 top and one 6 top. I had about 5 tables and my last table was a Japanese table!!! And they couldn't speak any English, so being the person that I am, I wasn't about to bust out my poor Japanese and try to struggle through the whole process so I started out in English! Classic E. After about 3 seconds of that, I realized they really didn't know any English, so finally I blurted out that I could speak Japanese and then they were so happy and between my poor Japanese and their poor English we got through it! I was actually impressed with myself so next time I won't be so apprehensive to go all Land of the Rising Sun on them. And here in Waikiki we get ALOT of Japanese tourists and in Japan, we don't tip. You just get the bill, pay the total and dip out. Tipping is nonexistent in Japan's restaurants. So not all Japanese know to tip and if they do know, maybe they don't know how much, but I have faith in my people, so I didn't put gratuity on their bill and told my skeptic GM that they would hook me up and whaddayaknow! They did! So after a gracious bow (not all the way down to the floor, but don't think I won't) they left happy as did I.
All in all, I didn't make as much as I was hoping for the night, but with two table sections I'm not sure how much I can hope for. My first friend ever at Changs Waikiki, Sarita, made $225! And she only had a one table section! And she's not even good! She said she had the VIP tables in her big booth and since they got their meals free that they hooked her up, even though she did bad and felt so horrible for them.... I WANNA DO BAD AND FEEL HORRIBLE AND WALK OUT WITH MAD CASH!!! What about me? So I'll be doing it again tonight and hopefully tonight goes a bit better.
The parking situation here in Waikiki is s0 ridiculous. There is no employee parking provided! I know that there's alot of tourists so parking decks are gonna charge alot per hour, but the building I work in is The Royal Hawaiian Shopping Center and it charges something like $2/20 minutes! So for our 4 hour orientation at the IMAX theatre it was $24 and then with validation it was still $8! So I've started parking at the zoo and walking. The walk itself is great. So much to look at and you're walking past the beach the whole time, which is a bit discouraging seeing all these people having a great time and you have to work... but it's so hot that by the time I get to work I'm sweating so much and that's not how I wanna start my shift. So I finally sucked it up and started parking at the parking deck on Seaside and it's only $6-7 for "ALL DAY!" So they say... I was there from 9:30 am - 9:45pm for our last day of training and I'm so tired and get to my car and hand the "woman" my ticket and "she" turns around and says "$16" and me, thinking I got this, reply "Oh, I paid advance for all day parking!" Then the "woman" opens up "her" mouth only to reveal that not only is this parking attendant a she-MAN, but that "ALL DAY" is only for ten hours of parking. FUGLY TRANNY SAY WHAT?! So I have to repark my car on the 5th floor, (even the parking decks are hard to find parking in) go to an ATM and get some cash, then go back to my car and so I hand my ticket and a $20 back to the not-so-fierce-tranny-hot-mess and "she" gives me my change and I zoom off all fast and furious. THEN I realized that the tranny gave me a $10 back instead of $4! To all my trannies out there who can't count.... MAHALO!
I finally started at Changs! After waiting forever, going through 7 days of long and boring training... I'm officially making money! Or trying to...
We are all starting out with 1-3 table sections. Last night was my first night and I got a 2 table section. One 4 top and one 6 top. I had about 5 tables and my last table was a Japanese table!!! And they couldn't speak any English, so being the person that I am, I wasn't about to bust out my poor Japanese and try to struggle through the whole process so I started out in English! Classic E. After about 3 seconds of that, I realized they really didn't know any English, so finally I blurted out that I could speak Japanese and then they were so happy and between my poor Japanese and their poor English we got through it! I was actually impressed with myself so next time I won't be so apprehensive to go all Land of the Rising Sun on them. And here in Waikiki we get ALOT of Japanese tourists and in Japan, we don't tip. You just get the bill, pay the total and dip out. Tipping is nonexistent in Japan's restaurants. So not all Japanese know to tip and if they do know, maybe they don't know how much, but I have faith in my people, so I didn't put gratuity on their bill and told my skeptic GM that they would hook me up and whaddayaknow! They did! So after a gracious bow (not all the way down to the floor, but don't think I won't) they left happy as did I.
All in all, I didn't make as much as I was hoping for the night, but with two table sections I'm not sure how much I can hope for. My first friend ever at Changs Waikiki, Sarita, made $225! And she only had a one table section! And she's not even good! She said she had the VIP tables in her big booth and since they got their meals free that they hooked her up, even though she did bad and felt so horrible for them.... I WANNA DO BAD AND FEEL HORRIBLE AND WALK OUT WITH MAD CASH!!! What about me? So I'll be doing it again tonight and hopefully tonight goes a bit better.
The parking situation here in Waikiki is s0 ridiculous. There is no employee parking provided! I know that there's alot of tourists so parking decks are gonna charge alot per hour, but the building I work in is The Royal Hawaiian Shopping Center and it charges something like $2/20 minutes! So for our 4 hour orientation at the IMAX theatre it was $24 and then with validation it was still $8! So I've started parking at the zoo and walking. The walk itself is great. So much to look at and you're walking past the beach the whole time, which is a bit discouraging seeing all these people having a great time and you have to work... but it's so hot that by the time I get to work I'm sweating so much and that's not how I wanna start my shift. So I finally sucked it up and started parking at the parking deck on Seaside and it's only $6-7 for "ALL DAY!" So they say... I was there from 9:30 am - 9:45pm for our last day of training and I'm so tired and get to my car and hand the "woman" my ticket and "she" turns around and says "$16" and me, thinking I got this, reply "Oh, I paid advance for all day parking!" Then the "woman" opens up "her" mouth only to reveal that not only is this parking attendant a she-MAN, but that "ALL DAY" is only for ten hours of parking. FUGLY TRANNY SAY WHAT?! So I have to repark my car on the 5th floor, (even the parking decks are hard to find parking in) go to an ATM and get some cash, then go back to my car and so I hand my ticket and a $20 back to the not-so-fierce-tranny-hot-mess and "she" gives me my change and I zoom off all fast and furious. THEN I realized that the tranny gave me a $10 back instead of $4! To all my trannies out there who can't count.... MAHALO!
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